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Post by rubl on May 2, 2022 11:21:22 GMT 7
Well, the Twitter company might no longer be an investment opportunity now that Elon Musk takes over. He said he'd like to make it a private company.
Interesting in that aspect is that Elon also twittered
""Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," said Mr. Musk. "I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential -- I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.""
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Post by rubl on May 2, 2022 15:07:09 GMT 7
A few somewhat right to far-off right American FB groups are keeping up the pressure or maybe just having a wet dream about what Elon Musk might do with Twitter. One could call it hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
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Post by rubl on May 3, 2022 14:50:55 GMT 7
"Elon Musk shares his plans for Twitter as he attends Met Gala with his mother ... While walking the iconic steps outside of the New York City museum, Musk stopped to talk to Vogue’s livestream host La La Anthony, who asked the Tesla CEO what his goals are for the social media platform. “[It] would be to make Twitter as inclusive as possible, and to have as broad a swath of the country and the rest of the world on Twitter, and that they find it interesting and entertaining and funny, and that it makes their life better,” Musk said. ..." sg.style.yahoo.com/elon-musk-shares-plans-twitter-004013376.html
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Post by rubl on May 3, 2022 21:06:06 GMT 7
Free speech? My speech? No need to think too much, relax, enjoy, Musk thinks for you? "Bread and Games"? "Musk: Yeah. At its heart, “wokeness” is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue." www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-wokeness/
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Post by rubl on May 5, 2022 7:33:54 GMT 7
Elon Musk is getting a bit like a populist with contradictionary promisses. "Musk Calls For Investigation Into Far-Left Groups Trying To ‘Control Your Access To Information’ ... “My goal is to maximize area under the curve of total human happiness, which means the ~80% of people in the middle.” Musk added in a separate tweet, “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.”" www.dailywire.com/news/musk-calls-for-investigation-into-far-left-groups-trying-to-control-your-access-to-information
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Post by rubl on May 7, 2022 8:33:01 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Oct 5, 2022 13:45:31 GMT 7
We have progress "Musk says he wants Twitter again and will pay $44B price" and "Elon Musk Twitter deal - live: Tesla CEO promises ‘everything app’ as $44bn do-over buyout accepted Elon Musk on Tuesday revived his offer to buy social networking site Twitter for $44bn, after previously attempting to back out of the high-profile deal. The Tesla billionaire proposed the price, which equals the original valuation of $54.20 a share, in a letter to Twitter filed on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr Musk broke his silence on the deal on Twitter late Tuesday, writing: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”." finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-deal-live-031253399.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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Post by rubl on Oct 30, 2022 15:08:49 GMT 7
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Post by chiangmai on Oct 31, 2022 7:16:43 GMT 7
Perhaps not! They become eligible for the golden parachute payouts, if fired for cause.....and they were.
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Post by rubl on Oct 31, 2022 9:50:00 GMT 7
Perhaps not! They become eligible for the golden parachute payouts, if fired for cause.....and they were. A Musky cause? This is America, We'll sue you
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Post by rubl on Oct 31, 2022 9:53:42 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Nov 1, 2022 20:56:54 GMT 7
Of course, American staff is already used to brutish working conditions and Management fools but one might wonder how long this will last, or maybe how long twitter will last. "Twitter staff have been told to work 84-hour weeks and managers slept at the office over the weekend as they scramble to meet Elon Musk's tight deadlines, reports say . Twitter managers have told some staff work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, CNBC reported. . Some managers told The New York Times they slept at Twitter's office on Friday and Saturday nights. . Staff are trying to prove themselves amid the looming threat of layoffs under new owner Elon Musk." finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-staff-told-84-hour-111714755.htmlOh BTW seems Elon Musk is really trying to get at least some of his investment back, quickly. That explains the pressure put on the employees. Mind you, assuming Elon Musk has learned with SpaceX pushing engineers and workers too much is explosive, literally. With software it's less explosive only because we call it minor bugs or maybe 'features'. "Twitter To Start Charging $20 Monthly Fee For Blue Checkmarks And Black Folks Are Disgusted Twitter now being in the hands of Elon Musk becomes more and more unbearable by the day. Not only did he fire the app’s top executives and let racists spew the N-word at insane rates (it got so bad Lebron James had to step in), but now he is charging for blue checkmark verification after firing the entire Twitter board and making himself sole director. On Sunday, he cryptically tweeted: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.” The Verge, however, explained what is in the platform’s immediate future: “The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is currently planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark. Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired." www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/twitter-start-charging-20-monthly-200708349.html
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Post by Moobin on Nov 2, 2022 9:47:58 GMT 7
That is batshit crazy. But like you say, working conditions in the US are already insane. 60 hour weeks seems to be quite normal.
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Post by rubl on Nov 5, 2022 14:57:09 GMT 7
Our 'free speech' boy doesn't seem to be too happy about freedom others assume to have. "Elon Musk Loses It Over Twitter Advertiser Exodus, Threatens ‘Thermonuclear Name & Shame’ Elon Musk is apparently freaking out a little over an exodus of advertisers on Twitter since he took over, because he publicly threatened them on Friday night. It started Friday morning, when he whined in an extremely Trump-like tweet that advertisers were fleeing because of “activist groups,” which he said was “Extremely messed up!” and an attempt “to destroy free speech in America.” He also insisted “nothing has changed” since he took over." www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-loses-over-twitter-040836233.html
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